28 'e .. itA HONEY OF A SHOW" -Walter Winchell 50 .. J :,'.r:} P,.I - _I J Ii MY SISTER EILEEN SECOND LAUGH YEAR! B I L T M 0 R E. W. 47 St. C I 6-9353 Evs. 8:40. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:40 \.." itA gay & ioyous frolic" -Coleman, Mirror Max Gordon presents JUNIOR MISS By Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields Based on the stories by Sally Benson L YCEU M THEA., 45 St. E. of B'way. CH. 4-4256 Evgs. 8:40. Mats. Wed. & Sat. at 2 :40 .............. .............. II ...................,... "'''' II............ ..... uAs deft, malicious and fascinating a comedy :: as you could hope to see. " - Wolcott Gibbs : John C. Wilson þTesenu : CIiSton * Peggy * Leonora * Mildred : WEBB WOOD CORBETT NATWICK BLITHE SPIRIT A Farce By NOEL COWARD MOROSCO THEA. 45th St., West of B'wl' · Circle 6-6230 Eves.: 8:40. Mats.: WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY at 2:40 '11 I I........... ............. ......... ...... ..... .... ......... .... ... ... ....... "MAGNIFICENT! . . . TRIUMPHANT!" -BROOKS ATKINSON, Times GERTRUDE LAVVRENCE in the Musical Play ttLADY IN THE DARK' At VIN. 52 st. W. of B'way-Mats. Wed. & Sat. M ail Orders Promptly Filled UA PERFECT COMEDY" -ATKINSON. Times LtFt. '1J11U t' J\.1Ut.ß OS.." \\\1. t\O\N '- ,c NEY - ... oORO' al\U EMPIRE Theatre ....:'=:'::::':',.-.;::::.. ' " ,<:, 1"':\:0/ SHEPARD TRAUBE. in associàtron With Alexander H. Cohen, presents i, <<11 ;' , i%" ANGEL STREET i By PATRICK HAMILTON Vincent Judith Le. G. PRICE · EVELYN · CARROLL GOLDEN Theatre. W. 45th St. CI. 6-6740. Evgs. 8:40. Mats. Wed. & Sat. at 2:40 Last Weeks! MAURICE JUDITH EVANS and ANDERSON MAC B E ,irkespeare'S Directed by MARGARET WEBSTER NATIONAL Thea., W. 41 St. PEnn. 6-8220 Evgs. 8:30. Matinees Wed. & Sat. 2:30 .. C C I ! J! 2 !y J En /1íiiiIIj I HOLLYWOOD Th., B'way & 51 st cr. 7-5545. Eves. 8:30. I I Mats. Thursday &: Saturday Performance Sunday Nig hts _ ._- ---- - - -- OLSEN &IOHNSON l:- In Their New Cra: Musical , \. Jr ; { CARMEN ELLA { MIRANDA -LOGAN i WINTER GARDEN. B'way & 50th St. Mats. SAT. . & SUN. $1.10-$2.75. Mat. & Evg_ Perfs. SUNDAY J Additional Theatre Advertising on page 31 were picking up from $1 ,OOU to $1,500 (Chinese) a lnonth in graft, which is more than a Chinese governlnent lninis- ter's salary. Meeting a private truck in trouble, governlnent drivers would stop and agreeably remove from their own trucks whatever parts were needed, sell theln at a good price, and en joy theln- selves for a few days with mah-jongg, wine, and the local girls. Although the- oretically under strict lnilitary discipline, drivers were apt to mix business with pleasure on a grand scale. After a night of carousing they would get out on the road about noon with a rice-wine hang- over. To save gas, which they could s;ll at forty Chinese dollars a gallon along the way, they had a dangerous habit of coasting down the twisting, spiral- ling grades, the ignition off, one foot on the clutch, the other on the brake. Since the road opened, thirteen hundred trucks have disappeared over the side. ^ RNSTEIN and his assistants reached .n the end of the road on July 26th. Three days later they flew to Rangoon, where they put up at the Strand Hotel, and, after spending their first evening at the Silver Grill, the only night club in town, they began work on their report to Chiang Kai-shek. Dictating in relays to a pair of BUflnese girl stenographers, they turned out a hundred and forty double-spaced typewritten pages of irate observations, sizzling cOlnplaints, and sweeping but sitnple recolnlnendations. By August 5th, these had been con- densed under Helhnan's direction into a final draft of thirty-five pages and Arnstein had returned to Chungking and delivered a copy to Chiang Kai- shek. The report was written in Arn- stein's own kind of diplolnatic language. The fanciest and n10st tactful word in it is "in- tolerable;" it is also the lnostfrequent. "The main reason that practically no tonnage is moving the full length of the Burlna Road," the report begins, "is due to an en tire lack of knowledge of the fun- damentals of lnotor transportation by the men now in charge The present governlnental agencies that are trying to operate trucks on the road are over- loaded with executives and office per- sonnel. No one gets right down into the actual operating end of the business." The report goes on to prescribe a reln- edy for every aihnent. Eighteen hours after receiving the report and having it translated, Chiang Kai-shek acted on one of its strongest e I 6. recolnlnendations, ordering the customs houses and toll stations on the road to stay open twenty-four hours a day. He also gave orders that instead of eleven toll and custolns houses scattered along the route, one central office to transact all this business be opened at a place where alnple parking space was avail- able. He directed that any delay of a governlnent truck of lnore than half an hour be reported directly to him. .L-\nother recolnlnendation was to dis- band the sixteen governlnent agencies and to appoint an experienced truck- ing man, preferably an American, to have authority over all operations on the road. The Generalissimo agreed, and this post has been filled by Lieu- tenant Colonel J alnes \Vilson, a West Point graduate who has had seven years' experience in the trucking business. F 01- lowing Arnstein's blueprint and report- ing to Chiang Kai-shek, Wilson is now installing a truck-dispatching system lnodelled on American lines. Six ter- minals are being set up along the road at intervals of a day's run. Besides lnechanics and equiplnent for greasing and repairing trucks, each terlninal will include cOlnfortable overnight aCCOln- modations for drivers. When the ter- n1inals are cOlnpleted, drivers will be required to check out of one in the lnorn- ing and into the next that night. The convoy systeln has been abandoned, so each driver will be on his own. Be- fore taking to the road, trucks will be rigidly inspected, to make sure they will not break down in transit. To lnan the terlninals, six managers, a maintenance supervisor, and eighteen dispatchers and Inechanics, all Alnericans hand-picked by Arnstein and Davis, arrived in China about six weeks ago. \Vithin the last feV\r days, Arnstein has re- ceived word that a sec- ond group, consisting of forty-six Alnerican lnan- agers and lnechanics, who were stranded at Manila when war was declared, are now on their way to Rangoon and will presently beat work in China. Acting as teachers, the technicians froln the United States will train the Chinese in i\.merican lneth- ods of greasing, repairing, and loading trucks. Taking another of Arnstein's rec- olnlnendations, Chiang Kai-shek or- dered that all private trucks arriving in Rangoon from America be required to carry government freight and gaso- line on three out of every four trips over the road. This proposal alone has JUTAN